One more reason why Google is not an evil company out to rule the world is the unleashing of Youtube.com captioning. It would be hard to enjoy watching youtube.com videos without sound. Google has added the caption features that will allow users to upload videos and add captioning to their videos without a big hassle. Google has a lot of experience with speech recognition such as GOOG-411 free telephone information service for everyone. This would also be a great feature for people who are hearing impaired. This may have been pushed by the vice president of Google because he is also hearing impaired. This will give another reason why the internet is good in schools and to get out of the 19th century books. The service is not perfect yet but it will get better in time if it is put to use and get training.
Google 411 was not perfect when it came out but now I personally use it when I am looking for a restaurant or a local business. Google is using its power minds to get people who would not normally use the internet to explore without coming across frustrating problems. I know that people will use this feature even when they can hear because there are some times when you can’t understand what the person is saying an it might be crucial to the video. I would use this for a math video because I don’t need to hear what the person is saying but just watch how he/she does the problem. I could sit in my math class and have my main instructor going and a youtube.com video working on the same concept so that if I don’t understand one part of the main lecture I am not lost for the rest of the class. Google is using their power and reputation for good in Youtube.com and other products such Chrome OS which has yet to be released!
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